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Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Links of the Week

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The Dark Knight Rises, in theaters July 20 (click pic to see trailer)

Time for my weekly wrap up of my favorite links found this week.

Do you like Game of Thrones? Guitarist Eric Calderone posted his rendition of “Games of Thrones Meets Metal” a few weeks ago. Very nicely done. Check it out below:

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That should about do it for this week. Did I miss your favorite? If you have any good ones to add to the list, post a link for us in the comments, okay?

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Links of the Week

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It’s Friday! Yay! I love to bring you links to the stories and stuff I found the most interesting this week. And it’s that time again. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did.

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That’s all, guys! If you have a favorite that I missed, won’t you give us the link? Just click on the comment bubble in the top right of this post. Thanks! I love to hear from you.

Disclosure of Material Connection: At times, some of the links in my posts are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy Links of the Week

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Happy Friday, everyone! It time to post my favorite links from this week. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

  • Giveaway: Tor is giving away five copies of The Stolen Bride, an Arthurian novel by Tony Hays. Deadline is March 9, 2012.
  • Remember the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report? Okay, maybe this technology is more along the lines of CSI, but this bit of news that reminded me of that. Researchers at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) have created AR goggles that all investigators to create 3D videos of crime scenes, tag evidence and then virtually re-visit the scene. Here’s the link, complete with a one minute video.
  • Interested in the new 3D Spiderman movie? A new full-length trailer has been released for the flick starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen and Sally Field.
  • Melanie Rawn’s new fantasy, Touchstone, is coming from TOR and debuts February 28. The story focuses on Cayden Silversun, a rebel wizard who is part Elven, part Fae. You can find an excerpt here.
  • Here’s a fun site that posts an original fantasy/sci-fi short story or flash fiction story every day: Daily Science Fiction. You can get each post for no charge via the website or email. Alternately, you can get a monthly digest for Kindle for only $2.99 per issue. There’s some pretty good stuff here by world-class authors.
  • Laser tag anyone? I saw this sometime back, but this yet-to-be-introduced toy entertainment device still cracks me up. Engadget posted an article featuring Hasbro’s Nerf Lazer Tag system — for your smartphone. The plastic blasters pair with an iPhone or iPod touch and will be introduced this year.
  • Kindle Freebie: Best-selling author Mike Dellosso‘s Christian suspense/horror novel Scream is being offered free for Kindle – only until February 14, 2012. At last report, it ranked #11 on Amazon’s Free for Kindle Store. I understand you want to read this one with the lights on. The offer lasts only until February 14, 2012 and is intended to support his new book, Frantic, which was just released by Realms three days ago. You can enter Giveaways for Frantic here (deadline February 22, 2012) Also at Melinda William’s blog, http://www.berlysue.blogspot.com, (hurry, I don’t know when the deadline is on these last two websites). Each of these sites also has a review.
  • Giveaway: Tor is giving away on Goodreads 5 copies of Glamour in Glass by best-selling author Mary Robinette Kowal. Deadline is March 9, 2012.
  • Are you Frank Peretti fan? He is giving away pre-release chapters of his new suspense novel, Illusion, which will be available March 6. It’s a unique promotion — each chapter release is governed by Like milestones on Facebook. Last I checked, 8 chapters were available. Info here.
  • What’s a Friday link mash-up without geek news? Railgun technology is getting closer to reality when the U.S. Navy awarded a defense contractor $10 million to develop part of the system that can hurl projectiles at 5,000 miles per hour. Yikes! Don’t aim that thing at me!
  • Are you a fan of the wildly successful MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic? If so, you might be interested in three games that promise to offer stiff competition this year: Guild Wars 2 by Arena Net, The Secret World by Funcom (targeted for an April release), and TERA by En Masse Entertainment (targeted for release in May). Here’s more info.
  • And here’s a fun video for those of you who are fans of Mass Effect 3. Someone has put together the entire story in the game, set to the song Still Alive from Portal. Warning: Spoilers abound. I know the song but not the Mass Effect game. The tongue-in-cheek style still made me smile.
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There were so many things to choose from this week that it was hard to pick my favorites. What about you? Are there any you’d like to mention? Just click the comment bubble at the top right of this post.

Disclosure of Material Connection: At times, some of the links in my posts are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Sightings of People Flying Over NYC/NJ Celebrates the Opening of Chronicle (the Movie)

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Have you seen this video yet? Apparently it’s going viral.

In honor on the movie Chronicle, which opens Friday (February 3), the guys over at ThinkModo have been busily working on a new way to market the movie. They built three airplanes shaped like people and flew them in designated areas over New York and New Jersey. Here’s a YouTube video of the sightings.

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The gist of Chronicle is this: Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.

If you want more info, it seems the best place to go is the official Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/chronicle

Are any of you already planning to see the movie?

 

Disclosure of Material Connection: At times, some of the links in my posts are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies in 2011

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With the new year upon us, the Internet is rife with lists of Top 10, Favorites, Most Anticipated…you get the idea. I got to thinking about this in regard to movies and wondered how many of the sci-fi and fantasy movies anticipated to be the best in 2011 actually panned out with movie-goers.

I did a quick search and came up with a list over at http://io9.com of the top 55 science fiction and fantasy movies to watch out for in 2011. I encourage you to go over to their website (via the link above) to see summaries of each of these, but in brief, these are the ones that made their list:

  • Season of the Witch
  • The Green Hornet
  • Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
  • The Rite
  • I Am Number Four
  • Drive Angry
  • The Adjustment Bureau
  • Apollo 18
  • Battle Los Angeles
  • Mars Needs Moms
  • Red Riding Hood
  • Suing the Devil
  • Beastly
  • Limitless
  • Paul
  • Sucker Punch
  • Source Code
  • Super
  • Hop
  • Your Highness
  • Thor
  • Priest
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
  • The Tree of Life
  • X-Men: First Class
  • Super 8
  • The Green Lantern
  • Rise of the Apes
  • Transformers: the Dark of the Moon
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
  • Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage
  • Captain America: The First Avenger
  • Cowboys and Aliens
  • The Smurfs
  • The Change-Up
  • The Darkest Hour in 3-D
  • Conan 3-D
  • Fright Night
  • Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World
  • Final Destination 5
  • Piranha 3DD
  • The Apparition
  • Now
  • Real Steel
  • The Thing
  • Contagion
  • Paranormal Activity 3
  • Dibbuk Box
  • Immortals
  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
  • Arthur Christmas
  • Hugo Cabret
  • Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
  • Sherlock Holmes 2
  • The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn

I’m the first to admit I don’t go to the movies much — not nearly as much as I’d like to, at least — so I didn’t see many of these (only Pirates of the Caribbean, Source Code, and Thor) and there are several others I still want to see. One of the most highly anticipated and probably my favorite of the three was Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Here’s the thing — I’d really like to see more of the movies that came out last year and I’m taking recommendations. Which were your favorites? Which one should I see next?

Attribution for Image above: By DoktorMandrake [CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons

Disclosure of Material Connection: At times, some of the links in my posts are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”